THE ONLY cardiologist performing cardiac catheterisations at Limassol General Hospital went on strike yesterday, demanding that he be transferred to Nicosia General Hospital.
As a result, patients from Paphos and Limassol will now be transferred to Nicosia, causing considerable hardship to patients and their families.
E.U. HEALTH Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou yesterday offered to help upgrade the State Laboratory to promote issues of food safety in the entire Mediterranean region, including the Middle East and North Africa.
CYPRUS IS pinning its hopes on the voice of a school pupil for this year’s Eurovision song contest in Moscow. The song ‘Firefly’, sung by 16-year-old Christina Metaxa, came out winner by a huge margin during last Saturday’s competition on CyBC.
PROJECTS worth €17 million will soon begin in Famagusta and Paphos districts, as part of the government’s programme of infrastructure development projects.
CYPRUS’ TRADE deficit expanded to €6.16 billion in 2008, recording an increase of €890 million compared to 2007, according to preliminary figures of the Statistical Service.
The total value of Cyprus’ imports reached €7.32 billion in 2008, while total exports were €1.16 billion euro.
Parties condemn ‘sick’ attack
A GROUP of vandals attacked a Muslim cemetery in the Limassol suburb of Kato Polemidia at the weekend, destroying almost all the graves at the site.
The vandals broke the marble headstones, causing considerable material damage and heartbreak of the families and friends of those buried at the cemetery.
Outrage over latest waste site U-turn
THE RUBBISH TIP in the Paphos village of Marathounda is set to open again for a further six-month period.
Member of the Cyprus Green party, Andreas Evlavis, told the Cyprus Mail, “This is a ridiculous suggestion and the people in small communities always suffer.
MEMBERS OF the Peyia municipality and the local football club, APOP Kiniras, are threatening to sue a number of residents over what they claim is a slanderous campaign.
According to newspaper reports, the mayor and APOP management are unhappy about a small element of ‘foreign residents’, who they claim are spreading lies about the expenditure of the 2008 municipality budget.
CAR REGISTRATIONS dropped by more than a fifth in January compared to the same month the year before.
According to the Statistical Service, last month’s car registrations totalled 4,456, compared to 5,672 in January 2008, marking a 21.4 per cent slump.
A 38-YEAR-OLD Cypriot man was beaten kidnapped and dumped at Petra tou Romiou in Paphos early yesterday morning.
A suspect, a Bulgarian national, has already been arrested for the crime and police are looking for his three accomplices, who are also thought to be non-Cypriot.
Police believe the men had worked for the victim and may have been owed money.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
